The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-05-13
AMERICAN FASHIONS.
Character of the Colorings and Designs In
Early Summer Suitings

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Character of the Colorings and Designs In
Early Summer Sutings.
Black is to be worn, and fashionably
worn-but it, too, has its which
is not, as some used to hope and pre-
dict, the general promenader- which
would make our streets, as the writer
already quoted has it, "a meeting
ground for universal mourners. . Black
will be seen in all the handsomest wool
fabrics, cashmeres, armure, basket
WeaVes, tricots, etc., and in silk and
satin, and Yelvets, and its trimmings
will be rich and elegant-iet, lace, silk
cords and passementeries. Such robes
as these are not for the street, but for
occasions of quiet elegance and cere-
mony. They will be seen at recep-
tons, formal dinners, the theater and
concert hall. These do not speak of
mourning, but carry about them an air
of ''dress" that puts the wearer at her
ease, and lifts her dress out of compe-
tition with her neighbor's. This kind
of black dress, too, is available to any
degree of frightening by white or color
combinations. This can be done by so
many methods-by flowers, lace, rib
bon, feathers, beads or jewelry, showing
There, again, to be,inyaluable in being
capable by combination of an almost
limitless degree of effectiveness. Black
as an everyday street dress then, is not
In style, except as the exception, when
It's made SO by conformity in make
and mode to the darker and graver col
ors, to be used at times, even as the sea-
son advances, for street suits There
be many who must, from necessity
and because of afiiction, wear black
both at home and abroad. Let US hope
then that fashion will not cater to the
uncanny desire to besclothed with the
"habiliments of VICE." drawing about
each wearer of the dusky hue a kind of
mantel of mystery that would seem to
set her apart from the enjoyment of
feast or festival. Rather far, as day.
light lengthens and skies grow bright
and glowing, let the captious dame in
vite her followers to Neck themselves
in light, bright coloring, and meet beau
ty with beauty. The God-given bless
ings of flower and leaf and tree, the
sunsets gorgeous glow, and the fair
blue tints of sea and sky should needs
be met with smiles and gladness, not
the weeds of woe; and like meeting
like, make high carnival of Joy the
long, long summer through.
So, though many plain, neutral tints
will still be worn, and though, as has
been said, great deal of gray in every
tone and shade will be fashionable,
still stripes, and stripes of definite, as
much as delicate, colors will lead in
dress goods. Beige and brown, too,
that 90 so well with plaids and stripes,
will be seen as often, perhaps, as the
grays:~ All stripes will, however, rest
on grounds of soft tones of whatever.
color, and though wide stripes and
large plaids will be worn, narrow ones
will take precedence as all or part of a
dress fabric. The wide stripes, which
in most wool patterns come in gradu-
ated widths, are reserved for panels
and foot decoration. That is they will
be made to run round the foot of the
dress, either all the way or as far as
the dress is not covered by drapery.
1t is worth noticing that though striped
and plaided fabrics are used only in
combination with plain materials, when
the fabric is cotton, or bingham, sat
cen, etc., the whole dress is more In
taste if made of the one fabric. The
assimilation between plain and figured
goods of cotton weave can not be
brought about so successfully (espec-
tally where the figure is broad or
conspicuous stripe) as with wool goods,
and cotton gowns made thus give the
idea of being caricatures, or unhappy
limitations of wool suits. There are
some extremely handsome ginghams
shown in wide stripes, especially in the
corded zephyrs. These will be made
mp alone.
Besides the stripes in wool fabrics
there are an infnity of small checks in
white, with red or blue threads on
grounds of old red, old blue, prune,
etc. These, with the stripes, are all
lighter and brighter than similar goods
of last year.
A pretty yelling is brought out this
year, with checks of silk on it. Mohairs
are soft and smooth, and will be worn
in place of the rough-surfaced fabrics
of last season, fewer of which will be
shoWn.-U Cleveland Leader.